NEWSHA GHAELI

EXPLORING the FUTURE OF CITIES

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NEWSHA GHAELI

EXPLORING the FUTURE OF CITIES

Newsha Ghaeli is exploring the future of cities through the transformative power of technology. She is a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is Project Lead at the Senseable City Laboratory and Instructor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Her work investigates the creative application of sensors in urban systems to build responsive, resilient, and efficient cities.

Newsha has collaborated on work with the World Economic Forum's Council on the Future of Cities, the United Nations Climate Change Summit, the United States Department of Energy, and consulted for the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KA-CARE) and the American Samoan government on tsunami resilient communities. In 2016, Newsha was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper: a group of leaders under the age of 30 charged with catalyzing social change in their communities.

SELECTED HONOURS

World Economic Forum, Global Shaper
MIT-Kuwait Center for Natural Resources and the Environment, Signature Research Grant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Council for the Arts (CAMIT) Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioner (shortlisted)
American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Henry Adams Certificate of Merit
Royal Architects Institute of Canada (RAIC) Honours
McGill University Derek Drummond Award
McGill University Ping Kwan Lau Prize in Architecture
McGill University Régis Coté Graduate Prize in Design and Sustainability
McGill University John Bland Travel Scholarship
Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence (nominee)